The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-08
BRIGHT BITS.

THE mama of the Chinese Emperor's wife is
Kan Di. StIe isn't as sweet as that, though
Neto HdCen Nelrs.
THE country editor never troubles himself
about cholera in the hot weather. He has
patent inSideS.-Iid- Bits.
ABOUT LOCO good-sized watermelons can be
got into freight car That's why the Southern
negro wishes he was freight car.-TrOy Times.
A FASHION JOURNAL speaks of white satin Tam
O'5hanters with racsSets embroidered on them.
Did the original Tam have his racket embroid-
cred, or was it just plain drunk!-Bnrlington
Free Press
IT is singular phase of human nature that
when man gives his wife dime to buy box
of hairpins or gum ring for the baby it looks
about seven times as big as when he planks it
down for bitters.-Shoe and Leather Reporter.
I'm so deathly afraid of the cars" said Mrs.
Timid, especially the fast trains. Id
rather walk any time than get on an express
train.
That's So said her husband, who is brute,
you always travel on afraid train"
The fact that her majesty presented all the
crowned heads of Europe present at the jubilee
with copy of Leaves from Che Highlands
has made new edition necessary. The sale of
the book has not been extraordinary but the
number of copies she has been able to give
away has afforded her majesty great satisfac-
tion.-Life.
Mrs. MoNEYBAGs Ito her husbandl-Now I'M
l.
on the right hand side of the ship l don't want
any meals at all.
Mr.. Moneybags- Why, my dear?
Mrs Moneybags-I heard some one say the
star board would be on that side and l guess
were rich enough to have the best.
IT is on the railroad trains that one is most
sure of hearing amusing things, as witness the
following fragment overheard on an Old Colony
train recently: What town is thisS" one pas
senger asked another.
This is Quincy"
''What is there in QuincyY"
well, there's some buried Adamses and some
unburied Adamses, but they're all dead just the
same. "-PrOUidence Journal
DErEcrIvE-Yo wish to see me, sir?
Citizen-Yes; | have been robbed of a package
How;
L intristed it to a messenger boy and he has
not been heard of since"
How long agoy'
Ten hours; suppose he is half way to
Canada by this time"
20, no; he can't be more than five or six
blocks off. I'll look for him. Omaha World.
A PLEASANT NEIeHBoRHooD-''Is that family
that has moved in next door neighborly?h asked
one Sioux Falls woman of another.
Yes they appear to be. They've borrowed
flour OF me twice, tea once and sugar three
times. Then they have got our tub and the
hatchet and two lengths of stovepipe and The
baby carriage, and the woman empties all her
Stops over the fence in our yard and l see her
coming across now to hang her clothes on our
liner
II shouldn't think you would like to have them
borrow things so much aud act quite so free
"Oh, l don't worry much about it. We've got
their mop and about half of their dishes and
their rollingpin and washing machine and the
other day borrowed ten sticks of wood from
them, and each afternoon our hired girl puts on
better clothes than the woman has to her back
and walks up midtown on the sidewalk, and to
night I'm going to put out poison for their dog
oh, we're getting along very nicely and think
they are going to be very pleasant neighbors
Dakota Bell